A sub-genre of Dark Comedy?
I’m talking about and looking for a very specific style of films, somewhere between black comedy and dark comedy.
‘Bleak comedy’ is perhaps the closest term I could think for it; movies with a looming sense of hopelessness and despair, wherein the characters or their stories are downright pathetic and miserable and the “comedy” therefore is a result of their misery and/or their circumstances.
I know very few films would fit that criteria but some of my favourites are:
Synecdoche, New York
The Lobster
In Bruges
The Banshees of Inisherin
The Art of Self Defense
The Double
Vivarium
The Voices